Drought

[Mortblanc]

Yes SS the production of ones own food is important as well as having the potential ability to produce.

But what about the drought? What about the times Pete is referring to when production is impossible due to lack of rainfall? Or the times when rain swamps the crops and spoils them?

I know that right now you are boosting production by watering, what about when the water is not available to artificially sustain your garden patches, or anyone else' gardens?

Those are the times when we preppers look at situations when our "long term preps" do not even scratch the top of coverage of the situation and a few tins of beans are a waste of time and space.

What about a 7-10 year drought. The US had that situation in the 1930s, and it occurred smack in the middle of the worst world wide financial crisis in modern history. Millions of people were forced off their land by lack of production and imminent starvation, migrating west to fill our west coast with people having a different attitude toward the role of government in their lives.

That migration and the political results have had as great an impact on our politics here as the modifications of your political system in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and the Great War had on English politics.

There would be other side effects too! If meat rationing were to occur, say 500 grams per week, I bet there would suddenly be many fewer vegans left in the country than were professing that behavior pattern before!